The Triumph of Christianity, Rodney Stark
The Triumph of Christianity, Rodney Stark
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The Triumph of Christianity
How the Jesus Movement Became the World's Largest Religion

Author: Rodney Stark

Narrator: Bob Souer

Unabridged: 13 hr 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 06/09/2020

Synopsis

Celebrated religious and social historian Rodney Stark traces the extraordinary rise of Christianity through its most pivotal and controversial moments to offer fresh perspective on the history of the world's largest religion. In The Triumph of Christianity, the author of God's Battalions and The Rise of Christianity gathers and refines decades of powerful research and discovery into one concentrated, concise, and highly accessible volume that explores Christianity's most crucial episodes. The unique format of The Triumph of Christianity allows Stark to avoid dense chronologies and difficult back stories, bringing listeners right to the heart of Christian history's most vital controversies and enduring lessons.

About Rodney Stark

Rodney Stark is the award-winning author of How the West Won, The Victory of Reason, The Rise of Christianity, God's Battalions, and many other books. He serves as Distinguished Professor of the Social Sciences at Baylor University, where he is codirector of the Institute for Studies of Religion. The recipient of several awards for distinguished scholarship, he is past president of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion and of the Association for the Sociology of Religion.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Byron on May 26, 2018

A well researched and thoroughly documented survey of the growth of Christianity from a small band of Jesus followers to a religion that now makes up more than 40 % of the people on earth today and "growing more rapidly than that of any other major faith." Stark challenges many of the often repeated......more

Goodreads review by Phil on February 02, 2014

I can't say that I'm a fan of this book, even though it has enjoyed some popularity. Two things have tended to put me off. First, the book tends to rely heavily on secondary sources and, even with that, its historical inaccuracies are reasonably common. This is not just complaining about a disputed......more

Goodreads review by Kent on April 25, 2016

A myth-busting book, Stark challenges some of the main planks of what we "understand" about church history. I already had a taste of this when I read his challenge to the universal negative perspective on the Crusades, God's Battalions. Some of the myths he seeks to debunk in The Triumph of Christia......more

Goodreads review by Scott on August 12, 2012

I've noticed that whenever people discuss the merits and demerits of Christianity, the discussion almost inevitably returns back to some of the same themes: what about the Crusades? Or the Inquisition? Or the Church's insistence to suppress knowledge? And usually, the questioner has the sympathetic......more

Goodreads review by Rick on October 21, 2020

This book borrowed a great deal of material from Stark's other books: "The Rise of Christianity", "God's Battalions", and "The Victory of Reason". So in that sense it felt like a Stark compendium rather than a new book. There were times when I was frustrated by his misconstruing of the Bible through......more

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